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Here's the rating scale I use, and how it corresponds to BGG ratings:

- Enthusiastic: I love the game and want to play it. (9, 10)
- Suggest: Good game, I want to play it and will usually suggest it. (7, 8)
- Indifferent: I'll play the game, if necessary, but won't suggest it. (5, 6)
- Avoid: I don't want to play this game. (1-4)

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Of green

The green colour of the sidebar is the Brunswick Green used by Nationalised British Railways - Western Region:

"A different color, also called "Brunswick green", was the colour for passenger locomotives of the Grouping and then the nationalized British Railways. There were three shades of these colours and they are defined under British Standard BS381C - 225, BS381C - 226, and BS381C - 227 (ordered from lightest to darkest). The Brunswick Green used by the Nationalised British Railways - Western Region for passenger Locomotives was BS381C - 227 (rgb(30:62:46)). RAL6005 is a close substitute to BS381C - 227. A characteristic of these colours was the ease for various railway locations to mix them by using whole pots of primary colours - hence the ability to get reasonably consistent colours with manual mixing half a century and more ago."

Boardgame club last Sunday: Princes of Florence, Wildlife

I had a very pleasant board game club meeting last Sunday. Few new games, old favourites and nice people! What more can you wish for?

While waiting for more players, I forced Ville to teach me Falling, the crazy Cheapass real-time card game where you try to be the last player to hit the ground. It was fun, even though it definitely needs more than the two players we had.

Then we started the first major game. I had two early registrations for an introductory game of Princes of Florence and got two more newbies to join us. It was sort of fun — my goal is to play more PoF this year, remember — but the game took a bit too long to be really enjoyable. Princes is a good game, but not if it takes over two hours. Those crazy mathematicians, always calculating everything… Notable is that I, for the first time in my life, did not buy a single Jester. Well, I lost, even though I built my city almost full. One work and two good Prestige cards simply isn’t enough.

Next I got five players to join me for a game of Wildlife. Six-player game was good — a bit too much downtime, but I felt like I had some control in the game, which was nice. I’ll definitely play the game again with six players, even though I might prefer it with less.

After that I didn’t have time for longer games (so no Goldland this time, either), but I played my latest short-game favourite Isis & Osiris which was, yet again, excellent fun. Finally, I tried a new game and played Cartagena. That was also a pleasant experience, a race game without dice is always good news.